Thaddaeus Hubbard
I started BSEG Advisory because I kept watching strong nonprofits collapse for the same reason. Not bad mission. Not bad leadership. Bad math.
I spent years on the operating side of mission-driven organizations watching the same pattern play out. The grant comes in. The program looks healthy. Eighteen months later the reserves are gone and no one can say why. The reason was almost always the same. The cost of delivery was higher than anyone wanted to admit, and the revenue model was built on the wishful version of the numbers.
Bridging the SE Gap is the methodology I developed to fix that pattern. BSEG Advisory is what the methodology looks like inside a real organization with real constraints.
I work with executive directors, founders, and CFOs who suspect the model is broken and want to prove it with data, not feelings.
Background.
- Degree, institution (TODO)
- Certification (TODO)
- Operating leadership in mission-driven organizations (TODO)
- Advisory work across nonprofit and social enterprise (TODO)
- Professional affiliation (TODO)
- Sector network (TODO)
Why BSEG Advisory exists.
The structural gap is widespread. Walk into ten nonprofits in workforce, housing, behavioral health, or community services and at least eight of them are losing money on every client they serve. Most of them do not know it.
Generic consulting does not solve this. Strategy retreats do not surface true cost per client. Grant-writing trainings do not fix a broken pricing model. The sector has plenty of advice and very little of it touches the math.
The book gave the methodology a name. The advisory practice gives it teeth. This is the room where the cost number gets built, the pricing gets set, and the earned-income bets get made.